Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and his wife, Angela, are longtime owners of a $1.5 million home in a Dallas suburb. In 2015, they snapped up a second house in Austin. Then another. The ...

Despite receiving substantial state funding to air-condition prisons in the last few years, the Texas Department of Criminal ...

Hoods down and sparks are flying, and it's just another day in the welding shop; however, at this shop, the workers don't get ...

An investigation led by the Texas Department of Public Safety Criminal Investigations Division has made an arrest in a major retail theft investigation across multiple Walmart stores in West Texas.

Justice Department drops investigation against Texas Muslims' EPIC City project Gov. Greg Abbott, AG Ken Paxton and Sen. John Cornyn had all come after the North Texas community project.

HUNTSVILLE, Texas — Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) Executive Director Bryan Collier is set to retire in August, the agency has announced.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a complaint against Texas to block the state’s two-decade-old law that provides in-state tuition to illegal immigrants.

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) is currently in talks geared toward reassuming control over prison facilities statewide, most of which are currently under contract with Management & ...

1 of 2 | This undated photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows Matthew Lee Johnson, who was sentenced to death for a convenience store robbery in which he set an elderly clerk ...

Johnson, 49, was executed by lethal injection and pronounced dead at 6:53 p.m., according to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

In Texas, race and income often determine who receives the toughest sentences for similar crimes, raising concerns about fairness in the justice system.

Matthew Lee Johnson was convicted of killing Nancy Harris in Garland, Texas in May 2012. Harris died five days after Johnson lit her on fire during a robbery.